Is alcohol a carcinogenic risk?
Consumption of alcoholic beverages has been implicated as a risk factor for the development of various cancers including oesophageal, oral, pharyngeal, laryngeal, liver and breast cancers. This article is a commentary on an earlier paper entitled 'Alcohol: a carcinogenic risk?' which challenges some of the evidence relating alcoholic beverage consumption to risk for these cancers. In the course of commenting on this paper, evidence is reviewed which shows a relationship between these cancers and consumption of alcoholic beverages, which is often found to be dose-related.
Turner
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Alcohol Research Centre, Churchill Hospital, Headington, Oxford, UK.
Anderson
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D000434:Alcoholic Beverages / Q000009:adverse effects*; D000437:Alcoholism / Q000150:complications*; D000818:Animals; D015197:Carcinogenicity Tests; D006801:Humans; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000209:etiology*; D012307:Risk Factors